A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

Chapter 121

"Is there anything about you that's worth trusting?" Zelda's voice was sharp, like the edge of a knife. "Callie, do you remember all the trouble you've caused over these years?" Zelda continued, her eyes blazing with anger. "How many times have you tried to hurt Lisette, and you think we don't know?" "When you were ten, you pushed Lisette into the pool at your birthday party. She nearly drowned, remember?"

"Then, when you were twelve, you shoved her down the stairs, and she broke her leg. Ring a bell?" "And when you turned fifteen, you orchestrated her kidnapping, and worse... You conveniently forgot that, didn't you?"

Zelda's accusations hung in the air like a thick fog.

Calliope stood stoically, the memories swirling back like a relentless tide.

She said quietly, "what if I told you that when I was ten, Lisette pushed me first? We both ended up in the water, but you saved her while I had to crawl out alone.

At twelve, she shoved me, and I just reacted.

And at fifteen..."

and relived countless

kidnapping. She had turned Calliope into the villain,

scapegoat for her own

machinations. While Calliope's\

lay in ruins,

in the sympathy

knew Lisette had hired the real kidnappers or that Calliope had

In her

when she

comfort, everyone had rushed to console

had been the victim, yet she became the

breaking the silence. "Do you think we don't know who did

try to pin it on Lisette, but she would never do

to hear her